AAF

The Admiralties are a group of Pacific islands taken by the Allies in late 1943 and early 1944 for air bases -- including New Britain, Arawe, Cape Gloucester, and the Green Islands. These actions set the "leap-frogging" pattern for taking islands that would continue for the rest of the war.

AEF

American Expeditionary Forces.

AFPAC

The Allies invaded North Africa late in 1942 in order to relieve the pressure on the Russians, enlist French colonial troops trapped in the area (who initially fought the Allies in this attempt), to open the Mediterranean to Allied shipping, to shorten the route to the Far East, and to prepare the way for further operations against the Axis in Europe.

El Alamein

This small southeastern European nation was invaded by Italy in April 1939. In December 1940, Greece invaded Italian-held Albania. When the Nazis defeated Greece the following year, Axis troops reoccupied the country. In November 1944 it was recaptured by the Allies.